The war is waged against its own subjects and its object is not the victory...but to keep the very structure of society intact.

A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.

There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-- Man

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.

You are a slow learner, Winston." "How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four." "Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.